''Paracostus'' is a group of plants in the family

Costaceae Costaceae, known as the ''Costus'' family or spiral gingers, is a family of pantropical monocots. It belongs to the order Zingiberales, which contains horticulturally and economically important plants such as the banana (Musaceae), bird-of-para ...

described as a genus in 2006. It is native to

Borneo Borneo (; id, Kalimantan) is the third-largest island in the world and the largest in Asia. At the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia, in relation to major Indonesian islands, it is located north of Java, west of Sulawesi, and eas ...

and to tropical

Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area ...

.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
/ref>Nabilah Syakirah, Binti Mohd Ali (2017)
"Systematic study of the genus Paracostus C. D. Specht (Costaceae) from Northern West of Sarawak: Leaf Morphological and Anatomical Aspects"
Final year project report.

Species

* ''

Paracostus englerianus ''Paracostus'' is a group of plants in the family Costaceae described as a genus in 2006. It is native to Borneo and to tropical Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. A ...

'' (K.Schum.) C.D.Specht - Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Cameroon, Congo Republic, Gabon, Islands of the Gulf of Guinea * '' Paracostus paradoxus'' (K.Schum.) C.D.Specht - Borneo

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q3363216 Costaceae Zingiberales genera